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Julia K. Jaffray

Julia Kippen Jaffray (May 21, 1878 – May 22, 1941) was a Canadian-born American social worker and clubwoman who was a national leader in prison reform and consumer rights.

Julia K. Jaffray
A white woman with dark hair, wearing pince-nez glasses and a strand of dark beads
Julia K. Jaffray, from a 1926 newspaper
BornMay 21, 1878
Galt, Ontario, Canada
DiedMay 22, 1941
New York, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Social worker, clubwoman
Known forNational leader in prison reform and consumer rights

Early life and education

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Jaffray was born in Galt, Ontario, Canada,[1] the daughter of George Joseph Jaffray and Jane Kippen Nairn Jaffray. Her father and brother were bankers in Toronto.[2][3]

Career

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Jaffray was stenographer to suffragist and clubwoman Helen Varick Boswell as a young woman.[4] Jaffray was secretary of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor.[5][6][7] In the 1920s she served on the advisory board of the Federal Industrial Institution for Women in Alderson, West Virginia.[8] In 1930 she was the only woman named to a New York state commission on prison administration and construction.[9] In 1934 she was appointed to state-wide commission on education in prisons.[10]

Jaffrey spoke and wrote in favor of meaningful work as a means of rehabilitation.[11][12] She opposed the unregulated leasing of prison labor for private gain.[13][14][15] "No person has a right to a cent of the money from prison labor but the prisoner himself and the state, until it has been paid back the prisoner's cost," she explained in 1924. "His children ought to get the benefit of his work."[16] She opposed capital punishment.[17]

During the 1930s, Jaffray chaired the economic adjustments division of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs.[18] In this role she testified before Congressional hearings in favor of the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939.[19][20][21] She worked for consumer protections, including food safety and standards for cotton goods, as chair of the public welfare department of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in Washington, D.C.[22][23][24]

In 1933, Jaffray taught at a new summer program at the New York Training School for Girls, designed to give women college students interested in prison reform experience working directly with girls in the juvenile justice system.[25] She spoke at the American Prison Association conference in 1938.[26]

Publications

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  • The Prison and the Prisoner: A Symposium (1917, editor)[27]
  • "Modern Prison Reform" (1924)[28]
  • "Work — The Great Reformer" (1928)[12]

Personal life

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Jaffray died in 1941, at the age of 63, in New York City.[29][30] Eleanor Roosevelt mentioned Jaffray's death in her My Day column, saying "I think her name will be long remembered in many women's groups and will serve to cement the friendship between the women of Canada and the United States."[4]

References

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  1. ^ "American Firms Blame Jobbers for Smuggling Prison Goods to Canada". Star Weekly. 1926-02-20. pp. 1, 7. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Julia K. Jaffray". The Buffalo News. 1941-05-23. p. 66. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Deceased Bank Head Once Served Here". Edmonton Journal. 1944-08-22. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b "My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt, June 7, 1941". The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Digital Edition. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
  5. ^ "Standardization of Prison Structure". Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. 10 (1): 148–148. 1919. ISSN 0885-4173.
  6. ^ Who's who Among Association Executives. Institute for Research in Biography, Incorporated. 1935. p. 614.
  7. ^ "Sane Prison System Urged for State by Club Leader". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 1921-11-16. p. 10. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Editorially Speaking: Women's Work for Women". The Woman Citizen. 10: 24. June 1926.
  9. ^ "Attempt to Divert $3,000,000 From Prison Fund is Charged". The Buffalo News. 1932-02-18. p. 14. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Miss Julia K. Jaffray Will Address Woman's Club". Daily Press. 1934-10-21. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Leaders of Women's Clubs Advocate Prison Reforms". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 1921-11-16. p. 10. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ a b Jaffray, Julia K. (May 1928). "Work -- The Great Reformer". Welfare Magazine. 19: 614–618.
  13. ^ "Prison Authority Visits Columbia; Julia K. Jaffray Stops Here on Way to Jefferson City". Columbia Missourian. 1938-02-22. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Julia K. Jaffray, Worker for Prison Reform, Due Soon". The Oregon Daily Journal. 1924-05-18. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Federation Hears of Prison Reform; Mrs. Julia K. Jaffray Speaks on 'Reclaiming Human Waste'". Nashville Banner. 1924-05-02. p. 12. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Ideal Prison Plan is Told to Women; Industrial Farms for Short-Term Prisoners Wanted". The Oregonian. 1924-05-27. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Abolishment of Death Penalty Favored by B. P. W." The Cushing Daily Citizen. 1928-06-02. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Miss Julia K. Jaffray Speaks at Century Club". The Times-Tribune. 1938-11-30. p. 18. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ United States Congress House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (1938). Wool: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce House of Representatives Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session on H.R. 5182, H.R. 6917, H.R. 9909, Labeling Act for Wool and Part Wool Fabrics. July 8, 9, 1937, and May 4, 6, 11, 1938. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 150–154.
  20. ^ United States U. S. Congress Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce (1938). Truth in Fabric: Hearings Before a Subcommttee...on S. 3502...March 31, April 1, 1938. pp. 9–10.
  21. ^ Senate, United States Congress (1939). Hearings. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 97–101.
  22. ^ Zeide, Anna (2018-03-06). Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry. Univ of California Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-520-96475-4.
  23. ^ Hyde, Florence Slown (1934-12-17). "Aid Drive on Crime; Women Individually and by Organizations Take Leading Part in Conference". The San Bernardino County Sun. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "General Federation Sponsors World Friendship Crusade". The Minneapolis Star. 1933-01-07. p. 24. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ "College Girls Get Course in Hudson School; Miss Julia K. Jaffray is on Staff of New Summer Course". Buffalo Courier Express. 1933-07-23. p. 30. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ "Julia K. Jaffray, Prison Board Secretary, Stops Here en Route to State Club Meeting". Albuquerque Journal. 1938-10-13. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ Jaffray, Julia Kippen, ed. The Prison and the Prisoner: A Symposium. Little, Brown, 1917.
  28. ^ Jaffray, Julia K. (April 1924). "Modern Prison Reform". Women Lawyers' Journal. 13 (2): 6–7.
  29. ^ "Julia Jaffray, Noted New York Woman and Galt Native, Dead". The Windsor Star. 1941-05-23. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ^ "Julia K. Jaffray Dies; Galt-Born Woman, 61, Was U.S. Social Worker". The Gazette. 1941-05-23. p. 16. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
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